February 25, 4:30 to 5:00 pm
Live Streamed through Zoom
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“Financing Philadelphia’s Future” – Tom Sgouros on the role of pension funds in providing affordable housing”
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Public Bank Supporters; Ujima Grassroots Partners; Ujima Partners; Ujima Peers:
You are invited to attend a Massachusetts Public Banking Coalition Meeting
Friday, May 13 at 9:00am via Zoom.
This meeting will build on the good news we received late last week that our bill has received an additional extension to May 31. More “Announcement from Massachusetts Public Banking Coalition
Please RSVP for Massachusetts Public Banking Coalition Meeting Friday, May 13 at 9:00am via Zoom”
Harvard Law School students work to create a Massachusetts public bank to help minority-owned businesses, small farms, and gateway cities More “Announcement
HLS students and Professor Christine Desan work to create a state-owned bank that would offer low-cost loans to minority-owned businesses and others”
Business group backs setting aside $50 million a year to fund a state-owned lender More “Announcement
Black Economic Council of Mass. makes forming a public bank a top legislative priority”
Author: Bryna Godar
Now updated to reflect the increased push for public banking following COVID-19. More “Policy Spotlight
Public Banking (Updated November, 2020)”
November 19, 2020
Saule T. Omarova, Cornell Law School
The COVID pandemic gave a renewed sense of urgency to the idea of offering every American household and business a free digital-dollar deposit account More “Roundtable: Public Money
S. Omarova, The Other Half of the FedAccounts Plan: What Happens on the Asset Side of the Fed’s Ledger?”
October 6, 2020
Abbye Atkinson, Berkeley Law
To the extent that “banking [is] the business model of money creation,”[1] it is difficult to conceive of it in truly humanistic terms. More “Roundtable: Public Money
A. Atkinson, On Equity within Public-Sector Banking Initiatives”
October 16, 2020
Leonidas Zelmanovitz and Bruno Meyerhof Salama
Calls for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to consider a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) gained steam after the release last year of a white paper by Facebook and associates More “Roundtable: Public Money
L. Zelmanovitz and B. Meyerhof Salama, Central Bank Digital Currency: the Hidden Agenda”
September 28, 2020
Robert Hockett, Cornell Law School
One fruitful way of thinking about money is simply as ‘that which pays’ in a payments system or ‘that which counts’ in a system of transaction-associated value accounting. More “Roundtable: Public Money
R. Hockett, The Inclusive Value Ledger: A Public Platform for Digital Dollars, Digital Payments, and Digital Public Banking”
September 1, 2020
James McAndrews, TNB USA Inc., and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center
The Center for Responsible Lending reported in June 2020 that U.S. banks collected over $11 billion in overdraft fees annually More “Roundtable: Public Money
J. McAndrews, Designing Financial Services for People with Low and Uncertain Income”
August 27, 2020
Sarah Bloom Raskin, Duke University
My children couldn’t quite wrap their heads around the scene: a long line of cars snaking across a vast parking lot, inching slowly toward the food bank’s delivery window. More “Roundtable: Public Money
S. Raskin, What to Do While Waiting for Fed Accounts”
August 18, 2020
Aaron Klein, Brookings Institution
The financial response to the Covid crisis demonstrated the inability of the federal government to rapidly get money to people during times of crisis. More “Roundtable: Public Money
A. Klein, How to Fix the Covid Stimulus Payment Problem: Accounts, Information, and Infrastructure”
August 10, 2020
Morgan Ricks, Vanderbilt University John Crawford, University of California Hastings College of the Law Lev Menand, Columbia Law School
In 1989 the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System came out against the “basic banking” legislation that Congress More “Roundtable: Public Money
M. Ricks, J. Crawford, L. Menand, FedAccounts: Digital Dollars”